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The Small Mammals Of Two Dune Communities In Southeastern Virginia, Robert K. Rose, Justin L. Sweitzer Jan 2013

The Small Mammals Of Two Dune Communities In Southeastern Virginia, Robert K. Rose, Justin L. Sweitzer

Virginia Journal of Science

Small mammals were surveyed using live and pitfall traps between the primary and secondary dunes at two locations on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay near the Atlantic Ocean: Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk and Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Captures were dominated by house mice (Mus musculus) in interdunal habitats with sparse grass, whereas white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) were found primarily in shrubby live-oak thickets on the tops of dunes. Hispid cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) were present only at Fort Story, and then only in patches of dense …

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Gay For Play: Theorizing Lgbtq Characters In Game Studies, Marc A. Ouellette Jan 2013

Gay For Play: Theorizing Lgbtq Characters In Game Studies, Marc A. Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

Despite, and perhaps because of, popular press reactions to stereotypical depictions of beefy boys and busty babes in video games, the realm of gender, sex, and sexuality remains a lacuna in the emerging field of game studies. Of particular interest is the notion of performance and the ways this impacts both on gender and on game play. The combination might be expected to offer a very interesting way of approaching LGBTQ characters in digital games, especially given the recent inclusion of such characters in some popular and well-studied game franchises, including Grand Theft Auto (Rockstar 1997-present), Jade Empire (BioWare 2005-08) …

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Size-Fractionated Phytoplankton And Nutrient Dynamics In The Inner Part Of İzmir Bay, Eastern Aegean Sea, Serkan Kükrer, Hasan Baha Büyükişik Jan 2013

Size-Fractionated Phytoplankton And Nutrient Dynamics In The Inner Part Of İzmir Bay, Eastern Aegean Sea, Serkan Kükrer, Hasan Baha Büyükişik

Turkish Journal of Botany

İzmir Bay has been one of most polluted bays of the Mediterranean for a long time. When the 'Big Channel Project' was completed in 2000, sewage flow into the bay ended. Hence, the influence of creeks, which are the only source of water transportation to the inner bay, was investigated in the current study. Monthly samples of creek water and seawater were taken. Basic water quality variables and nutrients were measured. In addition, the phytoplankton community was arrayed into size fractions to assess the contribution of each size fraction to biomass and pigment concentrations. Analyses showed that the creek waters …

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Vegetation And Soil Relationships In The Inland Wadi Ecosystem Of Central Eastern Desert, Egypt, Fawzy Salama, Monier Abd El-Ghani, Noha El-Tayeh Jan 2013

Vegetation And Soil Relationships In The Inland Wadi Ecosystem Of Central Eastern Desert, Egypt, Fawzy Salama, Monier Abd El-Ghani, Noha El-Tayeh

Turkish Journal of Botany

In January 2010, torrential rains that had suddenly swept away a limited area in the Eastern Desert facing Qena Province in Upper Egypt resulted in the enriching of the vegetation of some extremely dry wadis at this location. A vegetation survey carried out shortly after this event, in April, revealed the prevalence of annuals in considerable abundance, which are hardly recognisable in such usually dry habitats. The normally scarce perennial vegetation had flourished, too. A total of 32 species, 11 annuals, and 21 perennials that belong to 27 genera and 15 families were recorded. The life-form spectrum in the present …

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Pollen Morphology Of The Genus Onobrychis (Fabaceae) In Turkey, Süleyman Avci, Cengi̇z Sancak, Alp Can, Aydan Acar, Nur Münevver Pinar Jan 2013

Pollen Morphology Of The Genus Onobrychis (Fabaceae) In Turkey, Süleyman Avci, Cengi̇z Sancak, Alp Can, Aydan Acar, Nur Münevver Pinar

Turkish Journal of Botany

The pollen size and morphology of 20 Onobrychis Adans. taxa from Turkey were studied using both light and scanning electron microscopy. Of the taxa studied, Onobrychis fallax Freyn & Sint. and Onobrychis elata Boiss. & Balansa showed the smallest size of pollen grains, while the largest were found in Onobrychis aequidentata (Sibth. & Sm.) d'Urv. and Onobrychis viciifolia Scop. The pollens of all taxa studied represent the tricolpate type of pollen and are prolate in shape. The type of exine found in the studied taxa is reticulate (sect. Dendobrychis DC. and sect. Laphobrychis Hand.-Mazz.), suprareticulate (sect. Onobrychis), or microreticulate (sect. …

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New Staining Technique For Fungal-Infected Plant Tissues, Joao Paulo Rodrigues Marques, Marli Kasue Misaki Soares, Beatriz Appezzato-Da-Glória Jan 2013

New Staining Technique For Fungal-Infected Plant Tissues, Joao Paulo Rodrigues Marques, Marli Kasue Misaki Soares, Beatriz Appezzato-Da-Glória

Turkish Journal of Botany

The use of histological techniques, combined with the use of dyes, facilitates the visualisation of fungi present in tissues, allowing the details of plant-pathogen interactions in many different pathosystems to be revealed. The purpose of this study is to present a new double-staining method that uses cotton blue and safranin to identify fungal structures in plant tissues. With this staining method, the fungal hyphae stain blue and plant cell walls stain orange. The new method was tested on 2 pathosystems. The technique distinguishes between fungal and plant cell walls, giving it great practical utility. This is a staining technique that …

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Bio-Inspired Cooperative Optimal Trajectory Planning For Autonomous Vehicles, Charles Remeikas Jan 2013

Bio-Inspired Cooperative Optimal Trajectory Planning For Autonomous Vehicles, Charles Remeikas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

With the recent trend for systems to be more and more autonomous, there is a growing need for cooperative trajectory planning. Applications that can be considered as cooperative systems such as surveying, formation flight, and traffic control need a method that can rapidly produce trajectories while considering all of the constraints on the system. Currently most of the existing methods to handle cooperative control are based around either simple dynamics and/or on the assumption that all vehicles have homogeneous properties. In reality, typical autonomous systems will have heterogeneous, nonlinear dynamics while also being subject to extreme constraints on certain state …

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Evaluation Of A New Method For Large-Scale And Gene-Targeted Next Generation Dna Sequencing In Nonmodel Species, Ted Cosart Jan 2013

Evaluation Of A New Method For Large-Scale And Gene-Targeted Next Generation Dna Sequencing In Nonmodel Species, Ted Cosart

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The efficient method called exon capture provides for sequencing genes genome-wide, targeting candidate genes, and sampling specific exons within genes. Although developed for model species with available whole genome sequences, the method can capture exons in nonmodel species using the genomic resources of a related model species. How close the relatives must be for effective exon capture is not known. The work herein demonstrates cross-taxa capture in ungulates, using the domestic cow genome as a reference. It also describes a computer program designed for collecting exon sequences for exon capture, allowing users to set per-gene and overall base pair (bp) …

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P-Glycoprotein Transport In Pesticide Pharmacokinetics And Toxicity: Investigating A Link To Parkinson's Disease Risk, Sarah Elizabeth Lacher Jan 2013

P-Glycoprotein Transport In Pesticide Pharmacokinetics And Toxicity: Investigating A Link To Parkinson's Disease Risk, Sarah Elizabeth Lacher

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Variation in the gene that encodes P-glycoprotein (P-gp), ABCB1, has been associated with Parkinson's disease risk. The aim of my research was to evaluate P-gp transport of pesticides that have been associated with Parkinson's disease as a mechanism for the pharmacogenomic association. To facilitate this aim, a combination of models was utilized to determine P-gp transport of the pesticides diazinon, dieldrin, endosulfan, maneb, MPP+, paraquat, and rotenone. Paraquat pharmacokinetics and brain accumulation were measured in both FVB wildtype and mdr1a(-/-)/1b(-/-) mice. P-gp deficient mice displayed no changes in paraquat brain accumulation, indicating that P-gp does not mediate paraquat disposition. I …

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你吃了吗? Have You Eaten?: Using The Westernization Of Chinese Food To Explain The Transformation Of The Chinese Identity In America, Molly Young Jan 2013

你吃了吗? Have You Eaten?: Using The Westernization Of Chinese Food To Explain The Transformation Of The Chinese Identity In America, Molly Young

Senior Independent Study Theses

This thesis explores the changing Chinese American identity through the changes to Chinese food. Understanding one's identity is a difficult task because of its abstract nature; using a concrete element such as food, makes this task far easier. This method of using food to describe the Chinese American identity is especially helpful because of the importance placed on food in Chinese culture. For the Chinese, food is central to their identity because it is believed that the correct intake of food achieves a balance in one's life. It is also helpful, because the Chinese restaurant in America is a common …

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Remedial Consilience, Marco Jimenez Jan 2013

Remedial Consilience, Marco Jimenez

Emory Law Journal

Even though remedial issues are present in every case, too little theoretical attention has been paid to them, leaving a wide array of remedial doctrines-from injunctions to declaratory decrees, punitive damages to contempt, and unjust enrichment to specific performance-in search of a unifying theory.

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Looking At The Monopsony In The Mirror, Maurice E. Stucke Jan 2013

Looking At The Monopsony In The Mirror, Maurice E. Stucke

Emory Law Journal

Although still a distant second to monopoly, buyer power and monopsony are hot topics in the competition community. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD), International Competition Network(ICN), and American Antitrust Institute(AAI) have studied monopsony and buyer power recently. The U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission pay more attention to buyer power in their 2010 merger guidelines than they did in their earlier guidelines. With growing buyer concentration in commodities such as coffee, tea, and cocoa, and among retailers, buyer power is a human rights issue.

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Is Circumcision Legal?, Peter W, Adler Jan 2013

Is Circumcision Legal?, Peter W, Adler

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

An important, divisive, and unanswered question of American law - and indeed of international law - is whether it is legal to circumcise healthy boys. American medical association and experts assert that circumcision is a common, safe, and relatively painlesss procedure with many medical benefits that exceed the risks. They argue that insurance should pay for it. Some religious organizations argue that circumcision is a sacred religious ritual. In any event, proponents claim that parents have a general and religious right to make the circumcision decision. They can point to the fact that no physician has ever been held liable …

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House Bills Jan 2013

House Bills

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

Listing of House bills from the 2013 General Assembly

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Let's Talk About Tax: Fixing Bank Incentives To Sabotage Stability, Hilary Allen Jan 2013

Let's Talk About Tax: Fixing Bank Incentives To Sabotage Stability, Hilary Allen

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.

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The Possible Advantages Of Islamic Financial Jurisprudence: An Empirical Study Of The Dow Jones Islamic Market Index, Russell Powell, Arthur Delong Jan 2013

The Possible Advantages Of Islamic Financial Jurisprudence: An Empirical Study Of The Dow Jones Islamic Market Index, Russell Powell, Arthur Delong

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.

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Conception, Mise En Oeuvre Et Évaluation D'Une Intervention Factuelle Ciblée Au Profit D'Un Sous-Groupe De Filles Vulnérables : Étude De Cas Du Programme Pilote Filles Éveillées Pour Adolescentes Migrantes Employées De Maison Au Burkina Faso Urbain, Sarah Engebretsen Jan 2013

Conception, Mise En Oeuvre Et Évaluation D'Une Intervention Factuelle Ciblée Au Profit D'Un Sous-Groupe De Filles Vulnérables : Étude De Cas Du Programme Pilote Filles Éveillées Pour Adolescentes Migrantes Employées De Maison Au Burkina Faso Urbain, Sarah Engebretsen

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Il est crucial d’investir dans les adolescentes du monde en développement, où une proportion déjà importante et grandissante de la population tombe dans la catégorie des moins de 24 ans. La recherche a démontré que les défis posés aux filles sont particulièrement lourds aux alentours de la puberté, qu’il s’agisse de l’exclusion des espaces publics (et du manque de sécurité dans ceux accessibles), de la perte du réseau de pairs, de la déscolarisation, de la pression du mariage ou de liaisons comme stratégies de subsistance, ou encore de l’intériorisation de normes de genre préjudiciables. Les investissements consentis doivent l’être aux …

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The Impact Of Gold Mining On Local Farming Communities In Ghana, Emmanuel Yamoah Tenkorang, Patrick Osei-Kufuor Jan 2013

The Impact Of Gold Mining On Local Farming Communities In Ghana, Emmanuel Yamoah Tenkorang, Patrick Osei-Kufuor

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

The increase in leases for surface gold mining in Ghana between 1983 and 1998 has had drastic consequences for sustainable land use and management in the country. Most of these leases were for surface mining displacing the original owners from large arable land needed for their livelihoods. This situation makes the local people vulnerable to econom-ic uncertainties. The real benefits accruing to the ordinary Ghanaian in these mining communities is simply taken, for granted as monetary compensation is paid to affected community members. Such palliative payments to people displaced by mining activities do not address the existing vulnerabilities of these …

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Agroforestry And Smallholder Farmers: Climate Change Adaptation Through Sustainable Land Use, Colin Mccabe Jan 2013

Agroforestry And Smallholder Farmers: Climate Change Adaptation Through Sustainable Land Use, Colin Mccabe

Capstone Collection

Agriculture in the developing world will be extremely hard hit by climate change, and smallholder farmers in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are among the most vulnerable to its impacts. There is a range of agricultural adaptations to climate change, and each context demands a unique appraisal of impacts and adaptations based on specific geography, local climate variability and expected change, and social conditions. The term “climate-smart agriculture” (CSA) has come to embody a set of practices in crop and livestock cultivation that 1) reduce greenhouse gas emissions (climate change mitigation), 2) build resilience to the impacts of climate change for …

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Why We Write The Way We Do: A Study Of Composition Teaching Through Writing Style Translation, Yuemin He Phd Jan 2013

Why We Write The Way We Do: A Study Of Composition Teaching Through Writing Style Translation, Yuemin He Phd

Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges

This author used translation in the classroom to increase student awareness of audience. However, this translation was not between different languages; it was translation from an informal to a formal writing style, and vice versa.

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Computational Prediction And Qpcr Validation Of Mirna In Ceratopteris Richardii, Yevgeniy Kharonov Jan 2013

Computational Prediction And Qpcr Validation Of Mirna In Ceratopteris Richardii, Yevgeniy Kharonov

Student Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Fixed Gazes On Grotesque Gorging : Deconstructing Humanist Tropes In Cannibalistic Comics, Whitney Porter Jan 2013

Fixed Gazes On Grotesque Gorging : Deconstructing Humanist Tropes In Cannibalistic Comics, Whitney Porter

Student Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Speaking Through Death In Toni Morrison's Beloved And Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Monir Birouk Jan 2013

Speaking Through Death In Toni Morrison's Beloved And Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, Monir Birouk

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

No abstract provided.

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Expression Of An Epitope Tagged Tarp Effector In Chlamydia Trachomatis, Brenda Nguyen Jan 2013

Expression Of An Epitope Tagged Tarp Effector In Chlamydia Trachomatis, Brenda Nguyen

HIM 1990-2015

Previous studies performed on Chlamydia trachomatis have demonstrated how these obligate intracellular microbes invade host cells through the utilization of secreted effector proteins. One secreted effector called Tarp (translocated actin recruiting protein) is implicated in cytoskeleton rearrangements that promote bacterial entry into the host cell. The focus of our study is to create a plasmid that carries the tarP gene that when transcribed and translated from within Chlamydia trachomatis will generate a c-Myc epitope tagged Tarp. The tag will be used in future studies to track the progression of the protein through the infectious process and will allow us to …

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Transit Focused Utc - July 1, 2013–December 31, 2013, Nctr Jan 2013

Transit Focused Utc - July 1, 2013–December 31, 2013, Nctr

NCTR Transit Focused UTC

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Transit Focused Utc - January 1, 2013–June 30, 2013, Nctr Jan 2013

Transit Focused Utc - January 1, 2013–June 30, 2013, Nctr

NCTR Transit Focused UTC

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Threatened And Endangered Subspecies With Vulnerable Ecological Traits Also Have High Susceptibility To Sea Level Rise And Habitat Fragmentation, Allison M. Benscoter, Joshua S. Reece, Reed F. Noss, Laura A. Brandt, Frank J. Mazzotti, Stephanie S. Romañach, James I. Watling Jan 2013

Threatened And Endangered Subspecies With Vulnerable Ecological Traits Also Have High Susceptibility To Sea Level Rise And Habitat Fragmentation, Allison M. Benscoter, Joshua S. Reece, Reed F. Noss, Laura A. Brandt, Frank J. Mazzotti, Stephanie S. Romañach, James I. Watling

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

The presence of multiple interacting threats to biodiversity and the increasing rate of species extinction make it critical to prioritize management efforts on species and communities that maximize conservation success. We implemented a multi-step approach that coupled vulnerability assessments evaluating threats to Florida taxa such as climate change, sea-level rise, and habitat fragmentation with in-depth literature surveys of taxon-specific ecological traits. The vulnerability, adaptive capacity, and ecological traits of 12 threatened and endangered subspecies were compared to non-listed subspecies of the same parent species. Overall, the threatened and endangered subspecies showed high vulnerability and low adaptive capacity, in particular to …

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Proline-Dependent Regulation Of Clostridium Difficile Stickland Metabolism, Laurent Bouillaut, William T. Self, Abraham L. Sonenshein Jan 2013

Proline-Dependent Regulation Of Clostridium Difficile Stickland Metabolism, Laurent Bouillaut, William T. Self, Abraham L. Sonenshein

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

Clostridium difficile, a proteolytic Gram-positive anaerobe, has emerged as a significant nosocomial pathogen. Stickland fermentation reactions are thought to be important for growth of C. difficile and appear to influence toxin production. In Stickland reactions, pairs of amino acids donate and accept electrons, generating ATP and reducing power in the process. Reduction of the electron acceptors proline and glycine requires the D-proline reductase (PR) and the glycine reductase (GR) enzyme complexes, respectively. Addition of proline in the medium increases the level of PR protein but decreases the level of GR. We report the identification of PrdR, a protein that activates …

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International Society Of Sports Nutrition Position Stand: Energy Drinks, Bill Campbell, Colin Wilborn, Paul La Bounty, Lem Taylor, Mike T. Nelson, Mike Greenwood, Tim N. Ziegenfuss, Hector L. Lopez, Jay R. Hoffman, Jeffrey R. Stout, Stephen Schmitz, Rick Collins, Dough S. Kalman, Jose Antonio, Richard B. Kreider Jan 2013

International Society Of Sports Nutrition Position Stand: Energy Drinks, Bill Campbell, Colin Wilborn, Paul La Bounty, Lem Taylor, Mike T. Nelson, Mike Greenwood, Tim N. Ziegenfuss, Hector L. Lopez, Jay R. Hoffman, Jeffrey R. Stout, Stephen Schmitz, Rick Collins, Dough S. Kalman, Jose Antonio, Richard B. Kreider

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

Position Statement: The International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) bases the following position stand on a critical analysis of the literature on the safety and efficacy of the use of energy drinks (ED) or energy shots (ES). The ISSN has concluded the following. 1. Although ED and ES contain a number of nutrients that are purported to affect mental and/or physical performance, the primary ergogenic nutrients in most ED and ES appear to be carbohydrate and/or caffeine. 2. The ergogenic value of caffeine on mental and physical performance has been well-established but the potential additive benefits of other nutrients contained …

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Long-Term Exposure To Cigarette Smoke Extract Induces Hypomethylation At The Runx3 And Igf2-H19 Loci In Immortalized Human Urothelial Cells, Li-Mei Chen, Jennifer C. Nergard, Liqiang Ni, Charles J. Rosser, Karl X. Chai Jan 2013

Long-Term Exposure To Cigarette Smoke Extract Induces Hypomethylation At The Runx3 And Igf2-H19 Loci In Immortalized Human Urothelial Cells, Li-Mei Chen, Jennifer C. Nergard, Liqiang Ni, Charles J. Rosser, Karl X. Chai

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

Cigarette smoking is the single most important epidemiological risk factor for bladder cancer but it is not known whether exposure of urothelial cells to the systemic soluble contents of cigarette smoke is directly causative to bladder cancer and the associated epigenetic changes such as tumor suppressor gene hypermethylation. We undertook this study to investigate if long-term treatment of human urothelial cells with cigarette smoke extract (CSE) results in tumor suppressor gene hypermethylation, a phenotype that was previously associated with long-term constant CSE treatment of airway epithelial cells. We chronically treated an immortalized human urothelial cell line UROtsa with CSE using …

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